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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!dtix!darwin.sura.net!jvnc.net!gmd.de!ira.uka.de!Sirius.dfn.de!zrz.tu-berlin.de!math.fu-berlin.de!unidui!du9ds3!veit From: veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de (Holger Veit) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: Sorry, everyone, but I'm cpio clueless... Message-ID: <veit.711621056@du9ds3> Date: 20 Jul 92 08:30:56 GMT References: <1992Jul17.160256.4518@news.iastate.edu> <1992Jul17.180345.1296@nrao.edu> <1992Jul18.044401.2343@uvm.edu> <14c75pINNh59@agate.berkeley.edu> Sender: @unidui.uni-duisburg.de Reply-To: veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de Organization: Uni-Duisburg FB9 Datenverarbeitung Lines: 54 In <14c75pINNh59@agate.berkeley.edu> wjolitz@soda.berkeley.edu (William F. Jolitz) writes: >With regards to the 0.1 install program, yes, it only creates one big >partition for the whole set of files, with a 5MB "b" partition and a "c" >partition that spans the entire FDISK partition. Sorry no options yet. >As the INSTALL.NOTE's mention, to install it the prior, manual way by >writing a disktab entry is *not documented*, although possible with the >new FIXIT floppy. Crossing between the two mechanisms is also possible >but not reccomended unless you really know what you are doing (also, since >totally untested by us, may provoke bugs we are totally unaware of). >The install program is still under development (this is a surprise?), being >a recent addition, and one on which we'd like to hear some well considered >discussion, because of the choices possible. It's hard for a system this >complex to be installed by a naive user (we have approx 80,000 of these), >yet it should not be too much of a straight jacket for experienced ones. >Lynne chose MSDOS's model to begin with, but it's just a start. You'd be >surprised just how hard she worked just to get that straight. >Bill. One notice for all installers: There is a catch with install. You may run into problems with NEWFS (called from INSTALL) when the free space on your partition is at the beginning of the disk. newfs reports (WDINFO: no such process) and fails install. INSTALL may complain about 0 MB free, but this is not true. In this case you have to set up a partition with id 165 (0A5h) by yourself. This is accomplished by making an appropriate DOS-Partition with FDISK and then patching the DOS partition sector (with norton utilities or debug, BE VERY VERY CAREFUL!!!!!) to contain the proper ID). THIS PARTITION MUSTN'T START AT CYLINDER 0. The first useful location is cylinder 1, because all FDISKs have the feature to start the partition at cylinder 0 track 1, not track 0. This is reasonable, because track 0 starts with the DOS partition sector. But newfs wants to write its disklabel and does not like starting a partition at a non-cylinder boundary. Hope this information is useful. Holger -- | | / Holger Veit | INTERNET: veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de |__| / University of Duisburg | BITNET: veit%du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de@UNIDO | | / Dept. of Electr. Eng. | "No, my programs are not BUGGY, these are | |/ Inst. f. Dataprocessing | just unexpected FEATURES"